Behavior Quotes - Page 20

• I lost the love of all the homosexuals in the world by saying that Princess Diana was trash and got what she deserved. She could have been Queen of England - and she was swanning about Paris with Arabs. What disgraceful behavior. Going about saying she wanted to be the queen of hearts. The vulgarity of it is so overpowering.

  Quentin Crisp

  Queens, Princess, Heart

  10 Copy quote

• We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

  Victor Hugo

  People, Would Be, Ashamed

  5 Copy quote

• Teaching our children is more than just imparting information. It's helping our children get the doctrine into their hearts in a way that it becomes part of their very being and is reflected in their attitudes and behavior throughout their lives.

  Cheryl A. Esplin

  Children, Attitude, Teaching

  6 Copy quote

• Parents are with their children almost constantly and can observe when they are ready to be instructed. From questions or behavior or because of experiences in their own lives, they can sense that it is time to teach. Parents must know when the time for the lesson is now, right now, for their children are ready for it.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Children, Parent, Lessons

  Boyd K. Packer (1975). “Teach Ye Diligently”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Emotional, Comfort, Watches

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the CEO's behavior is 95 per cent healthy while the rest of the organization is only 50 per cent sound, it is more effective to focus on that crucial and leveraged 5 per cent that makes up the reminder of the CEO's behavior.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Organization, Focus, Healthy

  5 Copy quote

• Reward the behavior you want repeated.

  Larry Winget

  Want, Rewards

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.141, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are always those who say legislation can't solve the problem. There is a half-truth involved here. It is true that legislation cannot solve the whole problem. It can solve some of the problem. It may be true that morality can't be legislated, but behavior can be regulated.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Half, May, Morality

  4 Copy quote

• The funny thing is, the older I get, the less I enjoy talking when I act. I don't like talking anymore. I like behavior. All of the running and gunning, and the fights and the stunts, is just awesome fun.

  Grant Bowler

  Running, Fun, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Netflix will know everything. Netflix will know when a person stops watching it. They have all of their algorithms and will know that this person watched five minutes of a show and then stopped. They can tell by the behavior and the time of day that they are going to come back to it, based on their history.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Netflix, Algorithms, Minutes

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find that it's easier to do parts that are wrapped up in different hair and wardrobe and eras, and different period behavior, than it is to play closer to the present.

  Scott Bakula

  Hair, Play, Different

  "Scott Bakula Talks Behind The Candelabra, Working with Steven Soderbergh, Why the Film Landed at HBO, Basmati Blues, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 26, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

  Richard Thaler

  Attention, Nudge, Environment

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• The behavior of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has raised some curious questions about the continuing double standards in our society. When it comes to fascistic leftist behavior, our mainstream media overlooks and excuses it - while conservatives are demonized and blamed for every dead sparrow that falls from the sky.

  Jamie Glazov

  Wall, Fall, Media

  4 Copy quote

• While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn't prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and speculators. The speculative urge that lies within most of us is strong; the prospect of a free lunch can be compelling, especially when others have already seemingly partaken. It can be hard to concentrate on potential losses while others are greedily reaching for gains and your broker is on the phone offering shares in the latest "hot" initial public offering. Yet the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

  Seth Klarman

  Strong, Lying, Loss

  10 Copy quote

• Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Investment Success, Self

  10 Copy quote

• A few public hangings will really change behavior. One of our Presidents said if he could execute three people each year for no cause, it would make it a lot easier to govern. When someone said that's not enough, he said, "Oh yes it is, because I'd publish the list of people under consideration."

  Charlie Munger

  Years, People, President

  12 Copy quote

• 'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.

  Charlie Munger

  Men, Thinking, Practice

  "Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor". Book by Tren Griffin, September 15, 2015.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• The possibility that stock value in aggregate can become irrationally high is contrary to the hard-form "efficient market" theory that many of you once learned as gospel from your mistaken professors of yore. Your mistaken professors were too much influenced by "rational man" models of human behavior from economics and too little by "foolish man" models from psychology and real-world experience.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Men, Foolish Man

  11 Copy quote

• Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.

  Charlie Munger

  Evil, Would Be, Cashiers

  11 Copy quote

• If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

  Charlie Munger

  Judging, Salary, Want

  8 Copy quote

• I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

  Bill Cosby

  Teacher, Children, School

  5 Copy quote

• Almost everyone I meet is successful because of doing a lot of things right, and almost everyone I meet is successful in spite of some behavior that defies common sense.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Successful, Common Sense, Spite

  Marshall Goldsmith (2010). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful”, p.26, Profile Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.

  Marc Andreessen

  Numbers, Trends, Fads

  "Marc Andreessen On The Future Of Enterprise". Interview with Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com. January 27, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Profit is not the explanation, cause, or rationale of business behavior and business decisions, but the test of their validity.

  Peter Drucker

  Decision, Tests, Causes

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.

  Max Anders

  Lying, Blessing, Israel

  4 Copy quote